Carolyn Maloney

The most pressing economic issue for the nation is job creation.

This is concrete evidence of the wisdom of the Recovery Act and the positive effect it has had on the economy in just eight short months.

I hope our other members will join us.

The idea that the economy would achieve positive growth so soon would have surprised many.

I believe we still have a long way to go before the economy fully recovers.

We must do more to ensure that as we recover from this recession we do not see a repeat of the dismal job record of the Bush Administration.

That is why I encourage the members of the Senate to follow the House in passing a bill that extends unemployment benefits.

As we recover we must continue our commitment to the unemployed to ensure that working class Americans aren't once again left out of economic recovery.

Despite this fact, the Recovery Act is working.

As the economy recovers, we must continue our commitment to the unemployed to ensure that working class Americans are not once again left out of the economic recovery, as they were under the Bush Administration.

thanks to President Obama and to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we are finally seeing some signs of recovery.

I am optimistic that the numbers will show that the bold actions taken by Congress and the Obama Administration are turning our economy around.

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During the economic expansion of the Clinton era, when unemployment hovered at around 4 percent, poverty fell to 11.3 percent, its lowest level in decades.

Although we have lost the beloved liberal lion of the Senate, his dream lives on in us and we will continue his work on behalf of the less fortunate.

The weak economic recovery of the 2000s under the previous Administration did not lead to a further reduction in poverty.

American families have lost a decade due the failed economic policies of the Bush administration.

Congress and the President worked swiftly to expand and extend the unemployment insurance program for the thousands of workers losing their jobs each month.

I am optimistic that more Americans will be heading back to work as more stimulus projects get underway.

This recession, which began in December 2007, is now the longest and deepest in the post-world War II period.

Congress and the administration have undertaken numerous efforts to stem the tide of foreclosures.

We must do everything we possibly can to keep American families in their homes, to stabilize our housing prices, stabilize our economy.

The default and foreclosure rates for these mortgages in my New York district are relatively low compared to the rest of the country, but rising foreclosures continue to inflict pain in communities throughout the nation.

I saw President Clinton this past Monday, and he told me... the one that the most people would walk up to him on the street and thank him for was the Family and Medical Leave Act.

The Working Families Flexibility Act, which I have sponsored in the House, will ultimately benefit all American employees.